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Reliability Monitor

Open Reliability Monitor to review a time-oriented history of Windows reliability events and repeated application/system failures.

Risk: LowReviewed: 2026-09-17
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When to use it

Use when you need to identify when crashes began and correlate them with application, driver or Windows changes.

When not to use it

Do not treat the stability index or a single red failure as proof of the root cause; verify the event/application details in the matching subsystem.

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GuideFind repeated app crashes with Reliability Monitor before reinstalling everything

Use the Windows reliability timeline to identify when failures began and whether they line up with a specific app, driver, update or installation.

GuideUse Windows Error Reporting evidence to separate app crashes from app hangs

WER can preserve report identifiers and crash/hang context that help connect an incident to the correct process without turning every report into a root-cause claim.

GuideApplication keeps crashing in Windows 11: correlate Event ID 1000 with WER and the faulting module

Use repeated Application Error/WER records to identify the failing process, module and exception before reinstalling Windows or unrelated drivers.

GuideCapture a user-mode app dump with Task Manager in Windows 11

Preserve a crashing or hung application state for vendor or debugger analysis without crashing the whole PC.

ErrorEvent ID 1000 — Application Error: application or service crash record

Preserve the faulting application, module and exception code and correlate repeated Event 1000 entries with Windows Error Reporting Event 1001.

CommandPowerShell — list WER report archive

List recent Windows Error Reporting archive directories so report timing can be correlated with an application crash or hang without deleting or changing the reports.